Lovaholic "Happy Dumpling Festival!!!"
Lovaholic wishes all lovables HAPPY DUMPLING FESTIVAL aka DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL aka DUAN WU JIE!!!!
It is today where we chinese would really bother to commemorate this special day.... BUT... I only care about the dumplings!!! *Wahaha!!!*
A little informations of what's Duan Wu Jie or Dumpling Festival or Dragon Boat Festival (extract from Heritagekids!):
Duan Wu Jie is on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Lunar calendar (usually June in the calendar we use now). It is a day to remember the poet Qu Yuan, who was a loyal official in the court of the Chu Kingdom in old China. Other officials told the emperor lies about Qu Yuan. The weak emperor believed the evil officials and asked Qu Yuan to leave his court. Over the next 20 years, the Chu kingdom got weaker. Qu Yuan was very sad that his beloved country was controlled by another country, the Qin Kingdom. He decided to end his life by jumping into the river. Fishermen who heard that Qu Yuan drowned himself in the river set sail on boats to look for his body. When they could not find it, they threw rice wrapped in bamboo leaves into the river so that the fish in the river would eat the rice instead of his body. The traditions of dragon boat races and eating rice dumplings on Duan Wu Jie thus began. Duan Wu Jie is also known as Dragon Boat Festival or Dumpling Festival.
Read more: http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~sohyeing/duanwu.html
Enough of the history!!! *Boring = Yawnzzz*
I only LOVE my once a year rice dumpling feast which were specially made by my dearest Ah Mah (a chinese way to address grandmothers)!!! *Huh?!*
Here's how it looks like:
Wrapped with the nice smelling dried bamboo or pandan leaves!! *YuM!*
Tada!!! The feast begins....
This is "Nonya" and "Vegeterian" fillings!! My breakfast this morning.... *Yummy!!!*
So what's a Rice Dumpling (chinese called it "bak chang")!?
Although, they are just DELICIOUS food to me.... I will take the responsibility to elaborate... These cute little/big pyramids are made of glutinous rice (sticky rice) wrapped in dried bamboo or pandan leaves for the nice fragrance and then stuffed within the rice mouth watering fillings mainly mushroom, chestnut, pork, chicken, salted egg yolk and sometimes hotels/restaurant may have abalone, bird nest and even shark fin!!! I am contented with the norm. (^_^)
My Ah Mah really makes YUMMY rice dumplings!!! All my uncles & aunties and even relatives/friends pre-order from her!!! Ah Mah is really kind and generous as I have never see her charging them at all!!! She gives at least 20 rice dumplings to each!!! She's in her mid 60s now.... quite heart-wrenching to see her doing all the preparations for the rice dumplings.... Mind you, it is really a tedious process especially the wrapping part!!! Imagine wrapping over 200 of it... (~_~) *Sob Sob*
Ah Mah, I sayang you!!! (^_^)
Have you eaten any dumpling yet?
Lovaholic Vienne (@_@)
It is today where we chinese would really bother to commemorate this special day.... BUT... I only care about the dumplings!!! *Wahaha!!!*
A little informations of what's Duan Wu Jie or Dumpling Festival or Dragon Boat Festival (extract from Heritagekids!):
Duan Wu Jie is on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Lunar calendar (usually June in the calendar we use now). It is a day to remember the poet Qu Yuan, who was a loyal official in the court of the Chu Kingdom in old China. Other officials told the emperor lies about Qu Yuan. The weak emperor believed the evil officials and asked Qu Yuan to leave his court. Over the next 20 years, the Chu kingdom got weaker. Qu Yuan was very sad that his beloved country was controlled by another country, the Qin Kingdom. He decided to end his life by jumping into the river. Fishermen who heard that Qu Yuan drowned himself in the river set sail on boats to look for his body. When they could not find it, they threw rice wrapped in bamboo leaves into the river so that the fish in the river would eat the rice instead of his body. The traditions of dragon boat races and eating rice dumplings on Duan Wu Jie thus began. Duan Wu Jie is also known as Dragon Boat Festival or Dumpling Festival.
Read more: http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~sohyeing/duanwu.html
Enough of the history!!! *Boring = Yawnzzz*
I only LOVE my once a year rice dumpling feast which were specially made by my dearest Ah Mah (a chinese way to address grandmothers)!!! *Huh?!*
Here's how it looks like:
Wrapped with the nice smelling dried bamboo or pandan leaves!! *YuM!*
Tada!!! The feast begins....
This is "Nonya" and "Vegeterian" fillings!! My breakfast this morning.... *Yummy!!!*
So what's a Rice Dumpling (chinese called it "bak chang")!?
Although, they are just DELICIOUS food to me.... I will take the responsibility to elaborate... These cute little/big pyramids are made of glutinous rice (sticky rice) wrapped in dried bamboo or pandan leaves for the nice fragrance and then stuffed within the rice mouth watering fillings mainly mushroom, chestnut, pork, chicken, salted egg yolk and sometimes hotels/restaurant may have abalone, bird nest and even shark fin!!! I am contented with the norm. (^_^)
My Ah Mah really makes YUMMY rice dumplings!!! All my uncles & aunties and even relatives/friends pre-order from her!!! Ah Mah is really kind and generous as I have never see her charging them at all!!! She gives at least 20 rice dumplings to each!!! She's in her mid 60s now.... quite heart-wrenching to see her doing all the preparations for the rice dumplings.... Mind you, it is really a tedious process especially the wrapping part!!! Imagine wrapping over 200 of it... (~_~) *Sob Sob*
Ah Mah, I sayang you!!! (^_^)
Have you eaten any dumpling yet?
Lovaholic Vienne (@_@)
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